I stumbled on a great little free app the other day (thanks to Daring Fireball – if you don’t read it regularly, you should). It’s called Scorekeeper XL. This app is for scoring games – board games, card games, darts, whatever. It has a very simple, clever interface. Rather than try to [...]Read Full Article →

Rumors have been flying for weeks now about the coming iPad 3. I know several people who have already decided that it will be the replacement for their original iPads. My own thoughts? From all that I’ve read so far, I’ll probably be staying with my 1st gen iPad for a while longer. What I [...]Read Full Article →

Whether you like Facebook or hate Facebook there is no denying that it’s the largest social networking site on the planet. However, Apple hasn’t done a lot to integrate Facebook support into the Mac OS or iOS as they have with Twitter. If you look at iOS 5 you’ll see Twitter support throughout. Also [...]Read Full Article →

Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson I recently finished reading this biography. While I expected it to be a fascinating read, I didn’t expect to feel so connected to it. I’ve been a user, supporter, lover of Apple products for decades and thinking about “where I was and what [...]Read Full Article →

As you probably know by now, Apple announced that they’re committing to annual releases of OS X (no longer “Mac OS X”) and in addition announced this year’s model, 10.8, Mountain Lion. If you’re a member of the paid developer community, you can download a preview version now. Since I need to make sure Read Full Article →

Nothing this week. I have a husband in the hospital recovering from major surgery, so my mind is not on tech. Instead, I’ll wish one and all a happy Mardi Gras and share one of my NOLA favorites, Dr. John: httpv://youtu.be/8O19dMUV0PARead Full Article →

When Apple updated the Messages App in iOS 5 to support “iMessage”, we all assumed that this functionality would eventually come to Mac OS X as well. It’s very similar to what happened with FaceTime. First FaceTime was only on iPhone, then iPad and iPod touch and now it’s part of Mac OS X. iMessage [...]Read Full Article →

It’s another Friday! I have an associate at work who has a MacBook Pro. His MacBook was running out of disk space and he needed more. he asked what needed to be done to upgrade the hard drive in his MacBook. He asked me what was the best way [...]Read Full Article →

If you have an older vehicle, you may not have integrated Bluetooth, so you can’t use your phone hands-free. In some localities, you have to use your phone hands-free if you use it while on the road (and that’s probably wise – if you must use your phone while driving, make it hands-free). One solution, [...]Read Full Article →

I readily admit to being a tech junkie. Runs in the family. My father and maternal grandfather were responsible for setting me on this track. They were early adopters of all things tech, although, in my grandfather’s case he bought and expected me to run the gadgets. I was doomed from the start. The last [...]Read Full Article →

The old wallet full of pictures has been replaced… It’s quite normal these days to pass around your iPhone, iPad, or iPod Touch, or other Smartphone to show off your latest images of the kids, family gatherings or special events. Millions of people do it. After all, that’s one [...]Read Full Article →

Wow. This week’s post also could have had last week’s title. You really wonder in anybody is paying attention at companies these days. The first brilliant move I want to warn you about is from Logitech, normally not a company to pull bone-headed moves. But in this case, they have made what I [...]Read Full Article →

Don’t know about anyone else, but I hate it when I have to share long web addresses with others by email. Depending on what the other party is using to read messages, really long URLs can be truncated or broken into segments. For years I’ve used the site TinyURL to create a much [...]Read Full Article →

I’m a fan of Time Machine. Actually I’m a fan of backing up data in general. Some might even say that I’m paranoid because of the number of different backup methods that I employ. Not only do I use Time Machine but I also do clone backups using SuperDuper! and backups to the [...]Read Full Article →

When? There are iPhone/iPad apps that I have used once and decided they weren’t for me. There are apps that I have used a few times and then found something better. But there is one app that I’ve never been able to use fully, and can’t [...]Read Full Article →

One of the guys at work decided he wanted a Mac Mini, and being the resident Mac expert, he asked me if I’d help him get a monitor and set it up for him. So I started looking around at monitors – the one he really wanted was the one on my desk, but HP [...]Read Full Article →